Bedell Smith lays the blame for both parties\u2019 emotional inadequacies on their upbringings. \u201cDiana was tormented by feelings of emptiness and detachment; she feared abandonment; she had difficulty sustaining relationships; and she kept those closest to her on tenterhooks,\u201d writes Bedell Smith. \u201cUltimately, out of frustration, they abandoned her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further revelations about Diana\u2019s rages\u2014which resulted in her throwing herself downstairs whilst pregnant, and slashing herself with razors, shards of glass and knives in front of her husband\u2014paint a picture of a deeply disturbed woman, a long way from the \u2018Queen of Hearts\u2019 and \u2018People\u2019s Princess\u2019 that was to become her legacy in the immediate aftermath of her death.<\/p>\n
One of the prince\u2019s former advisers tells Bedell Smith that after meeting Diana, he remembered thinking: \u2018There is a rod of steel up this woman\u2019s back.\u2019 Diana\u2019s father, Earl Spencer, later confirmed as much when he said: \u2018Diana is very determined indeed and always gets her own way. I think Prince Charles is learning that by now.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bedell Smith lays the blame for both parties\u2019 emotional inadequacies on their upbringings. \u201cDiana was tormented by feelings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-368686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115081359195826064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}